From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266379AbUGUAyx (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:54:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266381AbUGUAyx (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:54:53 -0400 Received: from 214.98-30-64.ftth.swbr.surewest.net ([64.30.98.214]:50189 "HELO sublime.the-space.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266379AbUGUAyu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:54:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:55:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Andy Biddle X-X-Sender: andyb@sublime.winfirst.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Asus A7M266-D, Linux 2.6.7 and APIC Message-ID: <20040720175509.H48409@sublime.winfirst.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm having what I suspect is a newbie-type problem, but I assure you I've looked around. I have a dual-proc server that I've recently decided to overhaul. It's an Asus A7M266-D motherboard. It had been running with dual Athlon MP 1800+s and RedHat and BIOS rev 1003 for at least a year with no real problems. First I decided to change the OS to Gentoo. I build the system with no problem and built a custom kernel based on linux 2.6.7-gentoo-r11. Everything was working great. Then I changed out the procs and went with dual Athlon MP 2800+s. To support these, I needed to (according to Asus's website) upgrade the BIOS to 1011.002 or higher. (Latest is 1011.003, so that's what I used.) Now, when I boot to this custom kernel I get about 2 seconds into the boot process before the system starts spewing constant "APIC error on CPU0: 04(04)" messages. It stops booting at that point. I've done a little research and it seems that I'm supposed to do a couple of things: 1. Disable "MPS 1.4 Support" in the BIOS. 2. pass the kernel "noapic" as a parameter. I've done both of these and I STILL get the APIC messages. (Which leads me to suspect the "noapic" isn't working or I'm doing it wrong at the very least.) I've build another custom kernel where the only difference is that SMP is disabled. Sure enough, that works like a champ, but with only the single CPU. I've searched through the kernel "make menuconfig" menus and can't see that I'm missing anything. In fact, I can't even FIND "APIC" options unless I disable SMP... I'm just about out of ideas here... Any suggestions? Thanks, AndyB - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html